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The Missouri Court of Appeals Western District affirmed a circuit court’s guilty finding Tuesday in the case of a Kansas City man serving life in prison without parole for a 2004 shooting death. The appeal stemmed from a 2006 jury ...

The Missouri Supreme Court ordered an evidentiary hearing for a man who argued the state altered his plea agreement. The court decided on Tuesday that the circuit court erred when it denied Gary Roberts’ motion for post-conviction relief without an ...

Attorney will head Department of Economic Development Gov. Jay Nixon’s pick for director of the Department of Economic Development was approved by the Missouri Senate on Tuesday, but not before a St. Charles County senator delivered a fiery rebuke of ...

Bloomberg News Richard Scruggs, the former Mississippi lawyer who won $206 million from tobacco firms in a U.S. Medicaid settlement, pleaded guilty to crimes for the second time in six months. Scruggs, 62, admitted mail fraud and theft of honest ...

Chrysler, the third-largest U.S. automaker, is denying workers’ compensation claims over a spinal-cord treatment for employees injured on the job, according to a lawsuit. Chrysler, whose U.S. sales fell 30 percent last year, has adopted a policy of automatically rejecting ...

A Jackson County jury awarded a developmentally disabled man a total of $300,000 in damages on Friday in a civil case stemming from a struggle with Kansas City police that took place in 2003. The award for plaintiff Darrell Sterling ...

A Kansas City doctor won a jury verdict Friday on claims that his employer tried to classify him as an independent contractor to save on health costs. The jury returned two verdicts of $406,072 and $300,000 for Dr. Stanley Brand, ...

A group aiming to add funding restrictions on embryonic stem cell research and abortion services into the state’s constitution filed a lawsuit on Monday challenging the secretary of state’s ballot language. The Missouri Roundtable for Life had put forward a ...

Prosecutor repeatedly questioned defendant’s use of Miranda rights A federal prosecutor may not question a defendant in court about her decision not to answer police questions after her arrest, the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said Monday. Natasha L. ...

A unit of Boeing Co., the second-largest U.S. defense contractor, faced an appeal court hearing over claims it falsified flight plans to disguise the CIA’s delivery of suspected terrorists to secret prisons where they were tortured. A lawyer for the ...

At a legal technology conference in New York last week, I attended a number of seminars regarding Web 2.0 and its application and uses in legal practice — specifically in law firms. A prevailing theme that emerged from many panelists ...